Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Rhinebeck Part 1: Roadshots

Rhinebeck has come and gone, and I have some photos to share with you! I hope to offer them in several pieces for easy viewing.

Part the First: The Road

The ride up to to New York was characterized by rain.

Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.

And I loved it. To be fair, I was not the driver, and I was frantically working on my sweater. I'm deeply grateful to my guy for doing literally all the driving during the course of the weekend. What a sweetie! (Read between the lines: I'm not the best driver.)

If it had to be a rainy day, it was about the most beautiful rainy car ride I could ask for.

Once we arrived at our friend's house in Albany, however, the rest of the weekend was gorgeous. Our host wisely suggested we take the Taconic State Parkway down to Rhinebeck on Saturday.

We were happy to do a repeat of the TSP both ways on Sunday, and the trip home afforded us a couple minutes to take in the breathtaking view of the Catskill Mountains near sunset.

I'm so grateful that of all weekends, our trip up to New England fell on this particular weekend. Just wait till you see the trees on the fairgrounds! Stay tuned!

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A Smidgen of Knitterly Jargon

FO - Finished Object

UFO - Unfinished Object

WIP - Work In Progress

KAL - Knit-a-long; knitters near or far unite over a common project/theme, and more-or-less simultaneously progress through the project. Done well, it can be a very nice way to stay connected over long distances... kinda like watching the same movie while staying on the phone does for long-distance dating. It's a shared process.

frog - I appeal to Theresa Vinson Stenersen's explanation in this article

rip - unraveling your knitting by removing the needle and yanking on the working yarn

tink - undoing your knitting one stitch at a time by reversing the knitting process ("knit" spelled backwards)